Between this and slash burning the orangutans' rainforest down to plant palm oil trees while making a giant smoking mess and then that whole East Timor thing earlier...Indonesia really has got it going on.

Well, that's what happens when you pack 300 million subsistence farmers into a couple of small islands, add an authoritarian command-economy government hell-bent on industrialization, and then top with a nearby export-driven low-cost producer with strong ethnic ties to the merchant class.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, you can be fined if you don't study and understand the cryptic symbols on the bottom of various bottles, and fail to recycle the proper item into the proper bin.

Snorky: (in high child's voice) Snork speak man... (coughs, deep voice) I'm Sorry, Let me start over. Eons ago, dolphins lived on the land.Moe: What did he say!Carl: He said years ago dolphins used to lived on the land.Moe: [surprised] What?Snorky: Then your ancestors drove us into the sea, where we suffered for millions of years.Marge: But you seemed so happy in the ocean. All that playful leaping ...Snorky: We were trying to get out! It's cold, it's wet, every morning I wake up phlegmy.Lisa: Plus all that sewage we keep dumping.Snorky: [gasps] That was you?Homer: It was her alright. [holds up Lisa] Take the one who wronged you!Snorky: I, King Snorky, hereby banish all humans to the sea!Crowd: Pushy Dolphins. I don't like that. [etc.]Moe: I ... I tuned out. Where are we going?

We've had a large immigration of East Indians into Canada over the past 10 years. I was at the beach the other day, and there was this East Indian woman washing out her kids diaper in the surf at Centennial beach in Barrie.It's hard to be tolerant.

indarwinsshadow:We've had a large immigration of East Indians into Canada over the past 10 years. I was at the beach the other day, and there was this East Indian woman washing out her kids diaper in the surf at Centennial beach in Barrie.It's hard to be tolerant.

Funny how the people that create the narrative of tolerance only apply it in one direction. Enjoy your diversity and don't forget to celebrate it.

In reading Game of Thrones, I never once saw a thing about what they do with their garbage. Now, I know that's all fiction and stuff, but there was a very similar time in our history. I can only assume there was no such thing as trash problems then because nothing came in packages. You basically had food waste, human waste, and things you could easily burn.

Am I to assume that our trash problems today consist of a clear 85% containers that things come in?! Looking at the pic of all that crap in the ocean certainly makes it look that way.

In reading Game of Thrones, I never once saw a thing about what they do with their garbage. Now, I know that's all fiction and stuff, but there was a very similar time in our history. I can only assume there was no such thing as trash problems then because nothing came in packages. You basically had food waste, human waste, and things you could easily burn.

Am I to assume that our trash problems today consist of a clear 85% containers that things come in?! Looking at the pic of all that crap in the ocean certainly makes it look that way.

Paper and other mostly-cellulose products (newspaper, advertising, paper towels, disposable diapers, mail) and various forms of containers are a lot of it.

But there's also a tremendous issue of scale. Other than the few mega-cities of antiquity (Rome, London, Delhi, Peking, etc), there were no places that were both dense and big. 500 people in a castle+surrounding village fed their apple cores to the pigs and swept the manure and straw into the river (or burned it every year). 2 million people in Manhattan couldn't do that, even if they had no packaging and no paper at all.

YouPeopleAreCrazy:Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, you can be fined if you don't study and understand the cryptic symbols on the bottom of various bottles, and fail to recycle the proper item into the proper bin.

Carn:dletter: Did that photo make anyone else think that someone at Asylum/SyFy will look at that for the plot of their next movie?

TRASHNAMI!

Actually, when I was working for the Syfy channel a long while ago we got a pitch for a Survivor-type show where contestants were flown to an exotic location, blindfolded, and dumped on a huge landfill full of trash heaps and told to survive on nothing but the trash. They basically had to build shelter, find clothing and (I hope this was fake) find food in the garbage they were living in. Last one to remain wins.

It was rejected since the execs thought it was much too disgusting for American television....

Rand's lacy underwear:YouPeopleAreCrazy: Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, you can be fined if you don't study and understand the cryptic symbols on the bottom of various bottles, and fail to recycle the proper item into the proper bin.

RottNDude:So surfer bro has enough money to travel to Indonesia to catch some epic breaks, bro and yet these destitute people lack the basic awareness of how improper waste disposal impacts their environment.

Not weeping for you, surf-douche.

it makes no sense to call this traveling surfer a douche for bringing attention to this problem.

unless you were trying to give an example of douche projection. then it makes perfect sense

Wook:indarwinsshadow: We've had a large immigration of East Indians into Canada over the past 10 years. I was at the beach the other day, and there was this East Indian woman washing out her kids diaper in the surf at Centennial beach in Barrie.It's hard to be tolerant.

Funny how the people that create the narrative of tolerance only apply it in one direction. Enjoy your diversity and don't forget to celebrate it.

F*ck diversity. It doesn't work. The history of humanity has proven that without any sort of revision. I don't care what colour you are, or what language you speak. Washing your kids sh*tty diaper out in the water where everyone else swims is disgusting and anti-social. It fosters anger and frustration that forced intergration is nonsense and leads to racial tension.

indarwinsshadow:Wook: indarwinsshadow: We've had a large immigration of East Indians into Canada over the past 10 years. I was at the beach the other day, and there was this East Indian woman washing out her kids diaper in the surf at Centennial beach in Barrie.It's hard to be tolerant.

Funny how the people that create the narrative of tolerance only apply it in one direction. Enjoy your diversity and don't forget to celebrate it.

F*ck diversity. It doesn't work people, some of them are inconsiderate. The history of humanity has proven that without any sort of revision. I don't care It doesn`t matter what colour you are, or what language you speak. Washing your kids sh*tty diaper out in the water where everyone else swims is disgusting and anti-social. It fosters anger and frustration that forced intergration is nonsense and leads to racial tension.

There, removed your racialness.

It only raises tension.

In racists it raises racial tension.

I completely agree that it is disgusting, unhygenic, and antisocial which fosters anger and leads to tension.